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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl

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by: Klaus Badelt
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Released: 2003-07-22

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Title Tracks for Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
  • 1. Fog Bound
  • 2. The Medallion Calls
  • 3. The Black Pearl
  • 4. Will and Elizabeth
  • 5. Swords Crossed
  • 6. Walk the Plank
  • 7. Barbossa Is Hungry
  • 8. Blood Ritual
  • 9. Moonlight Serenade
  • 10. To the Pirates' Cave!
  • 11. Skull and Crossbones
  • 12. Bootstrap's Bootstraps
  • 13. Underwater March
  • 14. One Last Shot
  • 15. He's a Pirate
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Album Description
Original score composed by Klaus Badelt. An adventure movie in the grand old style, albeit a modern one featuring the quirky talents of Johnny Depp, the 2003 film PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN seems tailor-made for a good old-fashioned orchestral film score. Fortunately, that's just what composer Klaus Badelt gives it. You'll find no pop-group promotional tie-ins here, just plenty of evocative mood music that captures the drama and panoramic vistas of this summer blockbuster.
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Loosely based on the popular Disney theme park audio-animatronic ride, one might expect a modicum of good-natured "Yo-ho-ho-ing"--or maybe a little rousing Korngold/Errol Flynn/Captain Blood orchestral romanticism--here. Instead composer Klaus Badelt initially entices us with some sparing Celtic folk charm, then unleashes a furious broadside of symphonic and choral thunder to rival his ominous score for K-19. The composer's fellow German mentor is an obvious influence throughout (the album is credited with a wink as "Score overproduced by Hans 'Long John' Zimmer") but Badelt brings his own muscular instincts to bear throughout. Perhaps shrewdly realizing that genre cliches are nothing if not for reinventing, Badelt delivers his rhythmically nervous Eurocentric sensibilities--sort of Holst duels Shostakovich on the Spanish Main--with the subtlety of a scorching cannonball. It's seasoned with a little romantic respite in the final act, if a bit gingerly, and could no doubt profit by some of Korngold's sparkling melodic verve. But it's a loud, unabashed Summer Blockbuster score at heart; alert the neighbors. --Jerry McCulley
Product Details
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
  • Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-07-22)
  • Publisher: Walt Disney Records
  • Label: Walt Disney Records
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Studio: Walt Disney Records
  • Sales Rank in Music: #3108
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183 of 201 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great score / somewhat garbled presentation, August 7, 2003
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KD (Massachusetts, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Audio CD)
First of all, a wonderful score to a wonderful movie. Jack's theme is especially moving when played in its crescendo. The volume and pace is not something I regularly like being a devout fan of John Williams' work, but Badelt here has composed a score that will keep the tune and the movie in your head for hours. It makes me want to listen again and again.

But part of the reason I have to listen again and again is that the CD itself is so short. Only 43 minutes worth of music for an almost 2.5 hour movie? I would love to see a soundtrack at least once contain all (or almost all as space allows) music in the correct order.

One major gripe: I wonder what fool got a hold of this CD and wrote the track listing...they're either one jump ahead or one step behind. It's very confusing when trying to visualize events in the movie coinciding with the music. A better listing might be this:

1. Fog Bound
2. Will and Elizabeth / Jack Sparrow Appears / The Medallion Calls
3. Jack's...Read more

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible music, but Disney shortchanged it., July 26, 2003
This review is from: Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Audio CD)
For starters: I don't know if Klaus Badelt or Hans Zimmer was responsible for the rousing main theme of the movie (aka Jack Sparrow's theme) but whoever it was, THANK YOU. Brilliant job.

This is a wonderful, wonderful soundtrack. As others have noted, when I first heard that epic theme blasting out as Jack approached the harbor, I wanted nothing more than to commandeer a ship and devote my life to piracy (ahoy!). I went out and bought the CD... and... well...

Disney did a very poor job in organizing it, IMO. There's only about forty minutes of music on this CD - I haven't had the luxury of seeing the movie as often as I want to analyze missing music, but I'm fairly certain several key scenes with good music don't have a place on the soundtrack. Further, the exciting and wonderful end credits... which I stayed in the theater for... aren't here. The beginning of the end credits - "He's a Pirate" - is there, but it cuts off after only minute and thirty seconds. Arg...Read more

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70 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Johnny Depp for Emperor, September 2, 2003
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This review is from: Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Audio CD)
I am nearly fifty years old. A sober grown man. With children. Children with whom I have now sat through hundreds of movies. Many of which I have enjoyed. And I am not completely hardened in my sophistication. The opening music to The Lion King brought tears to my eyes when my little ones were but wee tots.

But still, these are after all just children's movies. In another life, I would never have seen them. And, really, one can't take such movies too seriously, can one?

And so, this summer, after the ritual badgering, I dutifully trudged into yet another Disney "adventure" movie. Named after that tired old ride in Anaheim I first went on in 1965. I mean really, how much can you expect?

And then, it happened. The swirling intoxication. The stunned feeling. What? Who? How? Was this a movie? Or a religious experience? Perhaps more like an addictive experience...

I cannot remember ever willingly paying to see any movie not starring a relative of mine more than...Read more

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